"Why is the blame constantly placed on everybody else?" The answer to that question is the heart of the matter for the institutionally impoverished.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's depressing about the comments on the APP comments about that article is that > some of the people are vilifying AP as a place where the middle class and gay population > are trying to put down people on the west side and that somehow we have a vendetta > against the homeless. > Honestly, is this anywhere near the truth? > For 30 years, Asbury Park has been a shambles, and we opened our doors to welfare, > mental patients and people who couldn't afford to live in the surrounding affuent towns, > none of which do anything to help the people that we've been welcoming to. > Now we're the bad guys because we want AP to be a better place. > Why don't people mention the gangs that exist here? We didn't create or ask for those. > What about the people who abuse the welfare system, who treat their children like cash > cows and do nothing to improve their lives, or their kids lives? > And what about the quality of life issues that we have to deal with. Here's a little story. 2 > weeks ago on a Monday night, I was sitting in my living room reading. I live directly across > the street from a high rise apt. building. It's 10:30 at night, and for a half hour, I hear a > women yelling "Fuck you you mother fucker" "You fucking piece of shit" "Go fuck yourself" > and so on. It wouldn't stop. On and on. And if I could hear it, so could the school kids that > live in the apts. next door. I should've called the cops, but I decided to take a walk over to > see what was happening. The women doing the screaming was going off on some guy, > and I walked up and said "Could you please keep it down, it's getting late" She says, "Fuck > you, who the fuck are you" I said, I live across the street and this isn't fair to me, or the > kids next door. Again I get "Fuck you, this crackhead won't leave me the fuck alone" Then, > some old guy with a cane comes up and tells me to "Get the fuck outta here, this is none > of your business" I asked them to just mellow out, and then after all this time, the security > guard of the building came out and told me he'd take care of it. He seemed aggravated at > me. So I "got the fuck outta there"....The reason I didn't call the PD in the first place is that > I didn't want to bother them with something that seemed so minor and simple. I guess > that was my mistake. > Here's what I don't get. Why don't the troubled communities do more to police themselves? > Why is the blame constantly placed on everybody else? > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, MarioAPNJ@ wrote: > > > > > > > > In a message dated 10/25/2007 9:47:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > > oakdorf@ writes: > > > > There are people that take advantage of the system, plenty stuck in > > the system and more that just can't or don't know how to live day to > > day, earn money or spend it right. Then there's: > > > > > > > > > > If you really want to get discouraged, read the comments following the AC > > article. Looks like the same gene pool as those who often comment at APP. > > Then again, I guess most people who comment in cyberspace or on talk radio are > > people who have an ax to grind. > > > > Seems like this board is one among those places where mostly people of > > goodwill post. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
